The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings — of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse — whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.